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Descent upon the Valley of the Jordan

SKU: 4543
£375.00

Title:
Descent upon the Valley of the Jordan

Date of publication:

  • 1842-45
  • Printed Measurement:

  • 33 x 48.5 cm
  • Artist:
    David Roberts

    Colour:

  • original
  • Engraver:

  • Louis Haghe
  • London: Day & Son for FG Moon, 1842-45. Tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe after Roberts, 33 x 48.5 cm, minor spotting. From the first edition of ‘The Holy Land’ which, with 'Egypt and Nubia', form “one of the most important and elaborate ventures in nineteenth-century publishing, and ... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph” (Abbey). Abbey, Travel, 385.